This summer’s motto: let’s do it! I’ve realized recently that we can’t live life thinking ‘what if ____ happens.’ Living life that way, we’ d miss out on a lot of great memories. We survived taking our 9mo baby on a 12 hour road trip and had an absolutely amazing time. Sometimes we do things that I’m sure people say ‘why are they doing that?’ like taking our bean to Kohl’s at 10:30 this weekend, letting Soph climb into the shower with me with all of her clothes on because she’s being needy or as everyone with babies is leaving the festival for the night, we’re just going! If our girl is happy though, we’re happy. We want her to experience all the awesomness that this world has to offer and we’re not going to say ‘what if ____ happens’ but ‘let’s do it!’
Organization
I believe this whole heartedly! People, like myself, may get anxious, irritated and disgusted with clutter but I also believe that I really am just too lazy to look for things. If I can’t find something in it’s first two places, I usually give up. I often don’t do craft projects JUST because my craft organization is insane. I do my best to completely stay out of the garage because it is a serious mess. I bought a small hammer, measuring tape and screw driver to keep in the kitchen JUST so I don’t have to go find one of the five we already have. Yes, if we just had LESS, it would be much more manageable and we’d have a place for everything and always be able to find what we’re looking for. In a perfect world. 🙂
Bigger Person
Photo by Jonas Nilsson Lee
My husband told me something that he was told as a kid and has always stuck with him. Be the bigger person. This is very hard for me as an ESFJ! It’s difficult for me to have any type of conflict or confrontation with people and once I do I’d rather write them off than try to work through our problems or be the bigger person. I let conflict eat away at me until I’m sick so I’ve been running my husband’s suggestion through my head to keep myself on the right path.
Joy
-Theodore Roosevelt
Every person in the world can benefit from Teddy’s words. As a new mom, this is something I struggle with often. I have to remind myself of these words when it comes to what stage my baby ‘should’ be at throughout her life. She is perfect to us and we have SO much pleasure and joy from her being a part of our lives. There’s no point in comparing…in any situation.
You Get What You Need
But if you try sometimes, you just might find, you get what you need. -Rolling Stones. I heard this song last week and it’s popped in my head several times since. I love that it keeps running through my head because it’s a great message…for anyone…all the time!